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October 9, 1952.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Universal Newsreels ; Release 403
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-war Era (1945-1960).
- Trains.
- Train stations.
- Wounds and injuries.
- Accidental deaths.
- Rail accidents.
- London, England.
- Local Subjects:
- Post-war Era (1945-1960).
- Trains.
- Train stations.
- Wounds and injuries.
- Accidental deaths.
- Rail accidents.
- London, England.
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (7 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Neighborhood:Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Universal Pictures Company, 1952.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- 95 KILLED, 200 INJURED IN BRITISH RAIL DISASTER: ENGLAND - A three-train collision in a London suburb kills at least 95, injures over two hundred, when two expresses smash into a commuters local, at the rush hours' peak. JAPAN ELECTIONS: JAPAN - In the first elections since the Occupation's end, 35 million go to polls. A smashing defeat for Reds, and a vote of confidence in Premier Yoshida's pro-U.S. policy. WINGLESS PLANE: CALIFORNIA - They said it wouldn't fly, but inventor Bill Norton wingless wonder, with radical retractable stabilizers, proves the experts wrong. SEE-SAW STRUGGLE FOR KOREA PEAKS: KOREA - Marines call the helicopter into service during savage hill-top fighting. Hop-skip-and-jump tactics carry rocket launchers from hill-top to hill-top, battering Reds and shifting location before they know what hit 'em. CHILEAN WOMEN VOTE: CHILE - For the first time in nation's history, women cast their votes, and are credited as decisive factor in presidential balloting. COMMANDO MEMORIAL: SCOTLAND - Queen Mother Elizabeth unveils a memorial to World War II Commandos. PERSIMMON FESTIVAL: INDIANA - Persimmon pudding is featured at annual festival. Grand tasting contest. LADY LOGGERS' SCHOOL: CALIFORNIA - Women train to invade he-man lumberjack's trade. Look out for 'lumber-jinny,' Jack!
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 859525051
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